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2. The method of claim 1, wherein the electronic device and the other electronic device are registered with a same user account at a service provider.
3. The method of claim 1, wherein the connectivity metric is determined based at least in part on a link metric with respect to a link between the electronic device and the accessory device and one or more operational characteristics of the electronic device.
4. The method of claim 3, wherein the one or more operational characteristics of the electronic device comprise at least one of a processing resource availability of the electronic device and a communication resource availability of the electronic device.
6. The method of claim 1, wherein the accessory device is configured to communicate exclusively via peer-to-peer communications.
11. The electronic device of claim 10, wherein the electronic device and the other electronic device are associated with a local area network.
12. The electronic device of claim 11, wherein the request is received from an additional electronic device that is external to the local area network.
13. The electronic device of claim 12, wherein the electronic device, the other electronic device and the additional electronic device are registered with a same user account at a service provider.
14. The electronic device of claim 10, wherein the accessory device comprises a connected home device and the instruction comprises an instruction to activate at least a portion of the connected home device.
15. The electronic device of claim 10, wherein the at least one processor is configured to perform the scan, the generate, and the broadcast periodically.
16. The electronic device of claim 10, wherein the connectivity graph further comprises positioning information for the at least one proximate accessory device.
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October 31, 2023
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